Lino is free software. You can run a Lino site completely without
our help.

While this might seem utopic at first glance, it is actually an
important strategical choice.

Using free software does not make you free from business partners to
whom you trust your software needs, but it is the only strategy that
permits a sovereign choice of these partners.

It is true that this freedom has a price. Using free software is
neither cheaper nor easier than using proprietary software. But
the more your everyday life depends on computers, the more it is
important to ask who controls these computers.

Free software is to computers what democracy is to society. Using
proprietary software for managing your business-critical valuable
information means to accept dictature.